What is your “Philanthropic Portfolio”?

Canada is highly connected, but “almost everyone is online” can hide the people for whom digital life remains difficult. Employment and Social Development Canada estimates that about 1.8 million Canadians did not use the internet in 2022. Most non-users were older adults, people outside the labour force and people living alone. Even among people who…

Eating disorders are often misunderstood because people expect them to look a certain way. In reality, a person’s body size does not tell you whether they are medically or psychologically well, and eating disorders can affect people across ages, genders, backgrounds and communities. They are not diets that went too far, vanity or a failure…

For people living with a life-limiting illness, good care is about more than treating disease. Pain, breathlessness, anxiety, family stress, practical decisions and questions about what matters most can all become part of daily life.Palliative care is designed for that reality. It aims to improve quality of life by addressing physical symptoms as well as…

Substance use affects Canadians in very different ways. For some people, alcohol or other drugs are occasional parts of life. For others, substance use begins to harm health, relationships, finances, work or safety. Health Canada’s 2025 Canadian Substance Use Survey estimated that about 907,000 people who had used at least one substance in the previous…